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- ...that the dynamite blast that officially 'holed' through the initial bore of Moffat Tunnel in Colorado was set off by United States President Coolidge upon pressing a key in Washington, D.C.?
- ...that the famous British poet William Wordsworth was so displeased at the incursion of the Kendal and Windermere Railway into the picturesque Lake District landscape, he composed a sonnet in opposition to the project?
- ...that when the Victorian Goldfields Railway in Australia commenced heritage train services from Maldon into Castlemaine Railway Station on 19 December 2004, it marked the return of regularly-scheduled passenger services along the restored branch line between these towns for the first time since World War II?
- ...that the CN Tower, built by Canadian National Railway, has been the world's tallest freestanding structure on land since its completion in 1976?
